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I used to believe that if you truly love someone, you should set them free, and if they come back, then it was meant to be. These days, I fight for love, believing that letting it go is giving up, and in that, a weakness. Today, I had been set free, and maybe in the future, I will taste that freedom, but what I feel right now is nothing resembling a bird out of the cage. On the contrary, I feel as if his love was never real. I feel heartbroken and betrayed.

They say that over 90% of couples who lose a baby simply don’t make it. The grief and the stress is too much. I thought we beat the odds. I truly believed that we were indestructible, because our love was just that strong. I stripped down to the very core, stood there completely naked, lowered all guards, and exposed my vulnerability. He then turned his head because what he saw was weakness, and I was meant to be his strong queen. He missed to notice just how much strength resides in vulnerability. He refused to witness the work.

How many times can one hit the same wall and not think to walk around it, instead of finally deciding to walk away? How can one love and not want to do the work to make it real and lasting? Relationship is work. It is a beautiful opportunity for our demons to surface, and with the gentleness of our lovers’ touch, we can slay them together. But work takes time, patience, and discipline. Relationship takes commitment to get through it all, even the shit that’s not pleasant. Isn’t that a big part of life? To find that perfect union that fulfills us and challenges us at the same time? But one needs to want to make it happen, to shift, and jump hurtles.

I have been labeled many things – a lover, a hypocrite, a child, an asshole, weak, kind, strong, sensitive, a yogi, an alcoholic, etc. The point is that I am IT ALL. I become one and then transcend to another. I screw up and I do things right. I am a deep, multi-dimensional being. And each one of these dimensions only desires to love and be loved. Why could he not love me in my most tender states, the ones that needed his love and support the most?

I am reliving deep pain from my parents. My childhood is swallowing me up and I feel helpless, floating in this space with no ground. Have I invested just way too much? Where have I lost all my power?

I don’t want to become jaded. I don’t want to stop believing in love. I don’t want to lose trust. I want to find freedom within love, not outside of it. But we all love so differently, speaking foreign languages, so where can we find that common ground? How can we really see one another for what is truly there?

You can’t help but go down the rabbit hole. Again. You warned yourself, set caution, but you just don’t listen. The hole is too big and your vision too blind. There is no time to grab your crayons, or start a lavender bath. If you sit and breathe, you will implode.

Bam. You pull the trigger and you don’t even know it. You’re firing bullets at the world around you, colored in sepia and black and white. There is fear clawing at your insides, turning to rage as it seeps out in froth, sweat, and screams. All reason is gone. You are on your own, without a life vest, drowning in the vast ocean of emotions too familiar. You put yourself on pause and hit fast rewind.

The victim comes out and begs to be heard. You are so very misunderstood – a walking lunatic, repeating the same cycles. But to you, everyone is a predator and you’re fighting for your very own life, to save or forget a memory.

You are young again, asking for help in the form of rebellion because now you can. Now, expression is possible, speak-able, yell-able, and sometimes, even fucking throw-able. Now is your chance to set things straight. To make things right. To be seen. You have resurfaced and you want to speak your truth; truth that at one point was stuck in your throat and hairballed out, only to be tucked away behind the medicine cabinet filled with anti-depressants, or the liquor cabinet, filled with fine wine. You are not self-medicating. Only clearing yourself of the past. Your runaway plan is accepted because everyone else is running too. They like you calm and thunder-less and only ask for the occasional ocean breeze. Just so they know you’re still here.

You only want to know that it’s ok. You want to hear it. You yearn for them to see right through you, to see the plea in your eyes to be held. You silently beg for their compassion. You are literally fighting for love. Sometimes, you’re even flighting for love.

You breathe the past, digest it, and store it away in your fat cells. Your belly grows on memories, but you don’t remember. There is only the now and the history of the world happens in this moment, in the now-to-now present. You summon yourself back, shining the light down the hole where you found no rabbits.

As you crawl back up, you’re hoping that they’ll understand, that they will love you and embrace your return, no matter what. You pray that you have not yet pushed them away. You pray that the wounds will heal. Next time, you will know, your promise. Next time, you will see the bigger picture. Next time, you will be in time. In the meantime, you will try to remember.